verify-email-domain-valid/

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Verify if email is from a valid domain in PHP — Amit Merchant — A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more

Working on an application which received user signups and let’s suppose it’s built on top of PHP, you want to validate that the email the user enters is valid. Sure, you’ll check that the email entered is a “syntactically” valid one by using one of these methods.

https://www.amitmerchant.com/verify-email-domain-valid/

[anjanesh]

My googling for python equivalent

[anjanesh]

php composer.phar require spatie/dns

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Spatie\Dns\Dns;
$dns = new Dns();
$dns->useNameserver('8.8.8.8');
$records = $dns->getRecords('amitmerchant.com', DNS_MX);
print_r($records);
$MXOfFirstRecord = $records[0]->target();
echo $MXOfFirstRecord."\n";

Array
(
    [0] => Spatie\Dns\Records\MX Object
        (
            [pri:protected] => 10
            [target:protected] => mailstore1.secureserver.net
            [host:protected] => amitmerchant.com
            [ttl:protected] => 148
            [class:protected] => IN
            [type:protected] => MX
        )

    [1] => Spatie\Dns\Records\MX Object
        (
            [pri:protected] => 0
            [target:protected] => smtp.secureserver.net
            [host:protected] => amitmerchant.com
            [ttl:protected] => 148
            [class:protected] => IN
            [type:protected] => MX
        )

)
mailstore1.secureserver.net